All these snippets of ideas that just felt different. It takes a while for that to build enough momentum for you to realize to think what’s going on. Phil Cook: When something is kind of itchin’ at you for a while, it’s maybe something that feels a little bit different or it has a different hunch about it. How did you begin the process of attempting to make it a reality? I have nothing to feel but grateful at the end of the day.ĪD: You had a very clear vision for Southland Mission. Music has given me my best friends in the entire world. I get older and I kind of meet more people from that funky old tribe of dudes where it really is just about the music. It was never about that or magazines or pictures and posters. It was never, not once about getting chicks. I feel lucky that it was just a love of the music itself. Phil Cook: Luckily, the door that I’ve found into music was so pure. There’s no mystery to what I’m doing.ĪD: It seems like you value the idea of building a certain degree of trust with your audience. I try to make people feel comfortable right away. I just want people to be relaxed and be themselves and have a good time. They love what he does and I think they are coming out and have been really appreciative and kind and listening. Tallest Man’s fans are fans of good music. This is the first time I got to have the thing for sale, and playing the tunes and talking about the record and it’s really exciting.ĪD: How has the response been over there? Doing these tunes, but the record wasn’t out, I was just like hey just so you know, I got a record coming out this fall. I was opening the show and then playing in his band in February. Phil Cook: I did some shows when I was opening for Hiss Golden Messenger. Archived from the original on April 21, 2012. ^ "Megafaun Music Video Launched on Pitchfork « Sirocco Research Labs".^ Thurston, Jason " Megafaun Biography", Allmusic, retrieved.(2009) " Megafaun Gather, Form and Fly Archived at the Wayback Machine", Drowned in Sound, October 19, 2009, retrieved (2009) " Megafaun Gather, Form & Fly", Pitchfork Media, July 24, 2009, retrieved ^ Howe, Brian (2008) " Megafaun Bury the Square", Pitchfork Media, September 9, 2008, retrieved.^ a b Jarnow, Jesse (2009) " Megafaun's Gather, Form & Fly", Independent Weekly, July 15, 2009, retrieved. ^ Mongillo, Peter (2010) "Megafaun relaxes into headlining slot", Austin American-Statesman, April 27, 2010, p.Bury the Square (2008), Table of the Elements.In October 2012, Megafaun announced on their website that they were going on indefinite hiatus "to re-tool the shed, so to speak." Discography Albums They played with Arnold Dreyblatt at the third annual Hopscotch Music Festival in Raleigh, North Carolina, which took place September 6–8, 2012. The band released its first music video, produced by the art collective Sirocco Research Labs, to promote the single "Carolina Days" on during the spring of 2011. Megafaun has toured with the Mountain Goats, Bowerbirds, Akron/Family, and in April 2012, The Drive-by Truckers, Damien Jurado (August 2012) among others. Producer Nick Sanborn played bass with Megafaun. The self-titled Megafaun was released in 2011. A third album, Heretofore, was released in 2010. It was described by Pitchfork Media as "a headily absorbing, occasionally unsettling listen", and by Drowned in Sound as "a tapestry of sound collages and a freedom with form which creates a richly textured whole". The group's second album, Gather, Form & Fly, was released in 2009 on the Hometapes label. Megafaun's first release was Bury the Square in 2008, on which the band were described as " away with Edison's polite experimentation in favor of full-bore concrète music, harsh noise salvos, and wild free-jazz interventions". After that band broke up in 2006, Vernon went on to record a solo project For Emma, Forever Ago as Bon Iver, and Westerlund and Brad and Phil Cook formed Megafaun. festival in 1997, and played together in various combinations, including in DeYarmond Edison with Justin Vernon. History īrothers Brad Cook (bass, guitar) and Phil Cook (keyboards) are from Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, and Joe Westerlund (percussion) is from Eau Claire, Wisconsin. Megafaun is an American psychedelic folk band based in Durham, North Carolina.
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